bug#65904: 29.1.50; autorevert can't revert files in a symlink directory

[Zhang Haijun]

It works in Emacs 26/27, But it doesn't work in Emacs 29.

0. emacs -Q

1. use the following code to open an existing file in a symlink directory

(progn

  (setq auto-revert-use-notify t

            auto-revert-interval 3)

  (global-auto-revert-mode 1)

  (setq find-file-hook (delq 'vc-refresh-state find-file-hook))

  (find-file "~/symlink_dir/test.txt"))

2. modify the test file in external program and save

3. emacs doesn't autorevert the file

In GNU Emacs 29.1.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version

 3.24.37, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-09-05 built on debian-think

Repository revision: 4995c0e685f994a554d6f82c4f6d9b24ea722b66

Repository branch: emacs-29-mod

Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101007

System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Configured using:

 'configure --prefix=/home/jun/apps/emacs-29 --with-x-toolkit=gtk3

 --with-modules --without-makeinfo CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:

CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON

LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND

SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM

XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:

  value of $LC_CTYPE: zh_CN.UTF-8

  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8

  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:

  global-auto-revert-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  global-eldoc-mode: t

  show-paren-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  indent-tabs-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired

dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068

epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date subr-x mm-decode

mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader

sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils

autorevert filenotify cl-loaddefs cl-lib china-util rmc iso-transl

tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks

lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd

tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace

newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar

rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock

font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq

simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang

misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms

cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian

cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table

epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button

loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window

text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule

custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind

inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo

move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process

emacs)

Memory information:

((conses 16 38732 5890)

 (symbols 48 5317 0)

 (strings 32 13519 1764)

 (string-bytes 1 390023)

 (vectors 16 10997)

 (vector-slots 8 211846 7863)

 (floats 8 22 23)

 (intervals 56 235 0)

 (buffers 984 11))